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[Goodspeed]

Disclaimer: I do not know how electrics work.

A Jeep needs him. I only hope Jeff sees this in time.



The other week I upgraded the Jeep's headlights with some Autopals and an upgraded headlight harness. Wowowow its amazing, like....it now puts out almost as much light as my parent's 2000 Avalon. So at least its more than the approximate light of a small candle, as OE specified.

Buuuuut, it looks like the ol' girl had a scuffle at somepoint and the front passenger-side turn signal is le ghetto rigged. The sockets are cracked and, at some point in moving stuff around, one of the prongs on the bulb socket broke off in the pigtail socket:



I need to replace this (and I'm assuming the best way is to cut it off at its wiring and solder on a new one), but damn if I can't find one. I picked up a couple of new bulb sockets, but I'm having trouble locating some of these pigtail sockets that mate to the bulb sockets. Jeep sez they don't sell them individually anymore, and I've never seen a stare blanker than of the Advance guy I spoke to.

My inspection is dead and I need to fix this ish. Can anyone hook a brother up with a part number, or somewhere I can look? Much thanks.

[fiveoh2go]

Did the dude at Advance even look it up in a catalog or did he just try to punch it into the computer and came up with nothing? When I worked at Fisher's we sold headlight sockets/connectors on the regular. :dunno:


Maybe try NAPA?

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Did the dude at Advance even look it up in a catalog or did he just try to punch it into the computer and came up with nothing? When I worked at Fisher's we sold headlight sockets/connectors on the regular. :dunno:


Maybe try NAPA?

Just went to NAPA today, no luck. Around here, the extent of customer service is "it ain't in the computer, it don't exist" :roll: . When I worked at advance we had some commercial parts guys that were like Rain Man with this shit. Though to be fair, 95% of the time, if we didn't list it, we couldn't get it.

Jeff, my brother, any chance you could drop some knowledge in here?

[D_Eclipse9916]

Did the dude at Advance even look it up in a catalog or did he just try to punch it into the computer and came up with nothing? When I worked at Fisher's we sold headlight sockets/connectors on the regular. :dunno:


Maybe try NAPA?

Just went to NAPA today, no luck. Around here, the extent of customer service is "it ain't in the computer, it don't exist" :roll: . When I worked at advance we had some commercial parts guys that were like Rain Man with this shit. Though to be fair, 95% of the time, if we didn't list it, we couldn't get it.

Jeff, my brother, any chance you could drop some knowledge in here?

Check the third aisle in at the vienna advance auto in the corner all the way towards the counters towards the bottom.

Good run on sentence eh? But yeah thats where they are.

[JustinG]

you cant just disassemble the pigtail and yank the broken prong out?

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Check the third aisle in at the vienna advance auto in the corner all the way towards the counters towards the bottom.

Good run on sentence eh? But yeah thats where they are.

NO WAI. Thanks, I'll have to go back to Advance :lol:

you cant just disassemble the pigtail and yank the broken prong out?

I don't think it disassembles...I tried pulling/pushing here and there and nothing. Its in there too far and good (lol) for tweezers as is, I think.

[Goodspeed]

Sigh - no luck at Advance. I didn't go to that one, but in the electrical section they had a bunch of Dorman connectors/sockets, etc. Couldn't find mine. I guess its Pik A Part time.

[.RJ]

Does the connector need to be waterproof? Does that connector plug into the bulb?

[Goodspeed]

Does the connector need to be waterproof? Does that connector plug into the bulb?

The bulb plugs into this:



And then that^ socket plugs into the fubar'd pigtail socket that I'm trying to find. Waterproof...I guess it wouldn't hurt? The original one doesn't look overly waterproof.

[.RJ]

Ok, I cant help you then. I have a whole mess of generic pins and connectors, but that looks fairly specific.

[Goodspeed]

Ok, I cant help you then. I have a whole mess of generic pins and connectors, but that looks fairly specific.

Its a bit ridiculous. All the generic Dorman connectors I could see where either 2 pin, or if they were 3 pin, the center pin was raised above the others so it wouldn't fit. No listings for this part anywhere. And you know its been on 1.245^2435 80's/90's/00's Chrysler vehicles.

Mr. Jeff, if you meander past this thread, can you confirm that Jeep will only sell the whole headlight/signal harness now?

[JustinG]

I'll pull my turn signal out tonight and take a look at the connector to see if it can be disassembley to get that broken pin out. This is for the turn signal under the headlight correct? NOT the vertical turn signal beside the headlight.

[Goodspeed]

I'll pull my turn signal out tonight and take a look at the connector to see if it can be disassembley to get that broken pin out. This is for the turn signal under the headlight correct? NOT the vertical turn signal beside the headlight.

Correct - mine is the pass. side under the headlight. Note: it looks like my Jeep ran into something at some point because a few of the sockets were cracked and have JB weld (?) on them.

[JustinG]

Follow along.....

What you will need....

A pick/paperclip/very small flat head screwdriver.

Push down here and push...


Remove the yellow thingy...


Remove the rubber grommet on the back side


Lightly pry up on the clip to whichever wire has the broken off piece in it...


You can see each wire has its own lil clip above it


As you pry up on the clip, pull out the wire from the back...


Donezo....

[Goodspeed]

AWESOME. So it can be done. Mine do have some sort of goop on them that has hardened but I'll give this a shot.

Thank ya.

[JustinG]

AWESOME. So it can be done. Mine do have some sort of goop on them that has hardened but I'll give this a shot.

Thank ya.

Its probably just hardened/old Dielectric grease.

[Goodspeed]

Yeah, I got mine apart but the prong wasn't going anywhere. It was like a calcified broken bone, that junk was stuck in there good.

Went down to Pik A Part in Stafford and got me 3 pigtails out of a totaled '99, crimped/shrink wrapped one in place and I've got a working turn signal again :thumbup:

[Jeff]

Shit, sorry I missed this thread. Its days like today that I do my checking up on MM then I won't be back around for a bit.

[Goodspeed]

Shit, sorry I missed this thread. Its days like today that I do my checking up on MM then I won't be back around for a bit.

No worries. But now that you're here, humor me - can you not in fact get this little guy by itself from Jeep? Was there some wildly obvious part number/source that I missed? Or was this in fact one of the rarest sockets on earth, found only in the rusting hulks of forlorn Jeeps?

"I gotsta know..."

[CaptainHenreh]

Did you not call the jeep dealer?